RE: [SYS21] Change Management

You're talking about apples and oranges here, Richard, but I think it's a 
worthwhile discussion.

Change management helps ease the pain of migrating custom (bespoke) objects 
from environment to environment (dev to QA to live, for instance).  It also 
helps manage multiple development requirements for one program, by allowing you 
to merge two sets of mods together.  The leading products in this area are from 
Aldon, Silvon, and SoftLandings.

The file/field/program relationships you're talking about are documented by a 
Cross Reference utility, offered by Hawkeye and ASC, among others.

I've participated in using both Aldon, Silvon, and Hawkeye products at JBA 
installations.  There are several ways to work around the library situation.  
You can either specify a replacement library list, for the utility to look 
through when it can't find OSLINX3, or you can just recompile your entire 
system, which is a bit scary but a good exercise if you have the time.

Richard, feel free to contact me off line if you would like more information 
about what it takes to do this.

Stefan Jansson
stefan.jansson@eljer.com
Eljer (not a S/21 customer)

P.S.  You're right that it would be nice for JBA/Geac to offer or have offered 
assistance in this area.  As a matter of fact, I pushed for that when I was 
with The Firm, but to deaf ears.  I guess they feel like their technical 
documentation is sufficient.


-----Original Message-----
From: richard.evans@deltaapparel.com
[mailto:richard.evans@deltaapparel.com]
Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 8:36 AM
To: jbausers-l@midrange.com
Subject: [SYS21] Change Management


                                                                
Has anyone with source successfully configured a change management system to
index all of the file/field/program relationships in GEAC?   Given the number of
libraries,  and that PTFs are compiled from non-existent ones (although source
is hopefully moved to the appropriate location) , I would think the initial
mapping would be a nightmare if not impossible.   However, if successful,  time
saved on research might make up for it.

I searched the archives prior to posting and did find one company (Fossil) using
Aldon but,  as I interpreted it,  they were only indexing modified objects. 
Another company (Sara Lee) was beginning the mapping process last May.

If successful I'd like to know the package,  how difficult the configuration
was,  and whether the vendor assisted with the mapping (wouldn't it be nice if a
vendor offered a GEAC template?)

Thanks,

Richard

Richard.Evans@DeltaApparel.com

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